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As opposed to getting rammed into the boards by someone much heavier. Ya what Subban did was dangerous let me tell you. How do you avoid a hit when you don't know its coming from behind and lose your footing.
Post-Game Talk: Habs choke 5-3.
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As opposed to getting rammed into the boards by someone much heavier. Ya what Subban did was dangerous let me tell you. How do you avoid a hit when you don't know its coming from behind and lose your footing.
SirClintonPortis
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I didn't see anything noticeable style change against Tampa in games 1 and 2. It was a 1-2-2 for most of the Tampa breakouts. The Tampa D corps being full of bad puck movers and Ondrej Palat being the only consistently deadly force they had contributed greatly to our "domination" of the Bolts. The Bruins have at least two Palat-level forwards on their roster. Reilly Smith and Bergeron have already made their presence known on the scoresheet two games in a two. Marchand, Iggy, Lucic, Krejci, Eriksson, and Soderberg are all capable of breaking out in a future game; they already have accumulated assists. Torey Krug and Dougie Hamilton are offensively above Hedman and have made their presence known on the scoresheet as well; they are clearly above Diaz caliber and likely as potent as Beaulieu is for us.
The Bruins also are better passers than the Bolts and less turnover prone, which means "opportunity" to test our D's (lack of) competence in their own end.
Ellers line had a horrible game -3
CJ adjusted and often had Bergeron against them.
Leaving Chara out against our so called number 1.
Both lines ineffective 5 on 5.
Sadly they have far more of flexibilty than we have.
SirClintonPortis
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And for the few minutes they get us out of their heads, they have proven they can pot 2-3 goals on us during that time period.
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You mean shooting off Bouillon and in?
Since when has scoring a couple of goals fast has become a rare occurrence in hockey?
They aren't pushing us out of their heads, or are you arguing that we shut them down for the whole game except for that little stretch?? What if Price doesn't make these crazy insane saves and they pot 2-3 earlier?
The Bruins hate us. We are always in their heads. Doesn't mean they can't win hockey games.
SirClintonPortis
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Articulate what are the specific effects of "we are always in their heads". That way, we don't get lost in this discussion to confusion over mere semantics.
Well you should have.
We did not use 1 2 2 Against Tampa.
We actually used 2 1 2 most of the series the third man circling the upper slot.
We also had our D far further up ice cutting the neutral zone. This requires TEAM SPEED. Do you not recall Weaver pinching and Gallagher not backing him up leading to a goal. Everyone blamed Weaver but Gallagher was at fault. We were playing a Press and Pinch the fowards being responsible for backing the pinching D.
If you saw anything remotely close to this in Boston I'd suggest a vistit to the eye doctor
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SirClintonPortis
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So far, at least one Bruin has lost their cool in the first two periods(Marchand's penalty in Game 1 occurred at the end of the second) in both games so far, but they seem to pay more attention to the scoreboard once the third rolls around and they don't send themselves to the box that often.
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The impact is huge.
Going home 2-0 with all that transpired would have been incredible.
You seem to misunderstand what my (being in their heads) means.
1) Rask can't beat us
2) Can't get anything past Carey Price
3) no matter how well we play we can't beat these *****rs
The three things i just mentioned are what lead to frustration and lack of discipline.
The hate thing is equal on both sides.
We are always in their heads is a complete fallacy they have won 5 of the last 7 series.
They had a bench penalty yesterday for abusive language. Iginla has been yapping since his first shift.
So did Thornton. Julien as usual. Rask has been rather average.
Typical Bruins vs Habs.
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All those penalties occurred in the first and second periods, as the boxscore would show. Me saying that they rack up their penalties in the first and second periods is not an attempt to prove the statement: "they are not in their heads". It is matter of delineating when us being in their heads leads to them to actually doing something on the boxscore.
They don't put themselves in the box as much during third periods when the score is close or when they are trailing; when they do get penalized, it's due to being burnt on hockey plays, not their tough guy act. The opportunities they give us are in the first and second periods. The Bruins seem to start caring solely about the scoreboard in the third if the game is within reach.
It doesn't and never will but it doesn't hurt.
For me it's what goes on once the whistle blows and the puck is dropped.
Doubt is huge in sports.
I was loving everything i was seeing in terms of Boston's composure as a Habs fan.
I truly believe we had them right where we wanted them but let them off the mat.
The question now is can we bring them back to where they were?
Had we held on to game two that boiling point would have been a lot closer to the surface.
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